Horseshoe



(No ModeL) Y R.`CONDON.

HORSESHOB.

N0. 315,736. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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RICHARD CONDON, OF LYONS, IOWA.

HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,736, dated April 14, 1885. Application filed July 1Q, 1884. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD CoNDoN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Lyons, in the county of Clinton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which the following is a specication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

|The invention consists of a horseshoe provided with a separate toe-plate having lugs constructed to iit neatly in recesses formed in the shoe, and having a calk set back from the front of the plate,which is provided with nailholes in front and at the ends of the calk in posit-ion, when in place, to be in range with the holes in the body of the shoe, so that the toe-piece may be fastened and held in place by the saine nails which fasten the shoe to the horses foot, as hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a portion of a horseshoe with the toe-piece in place upon the shoe. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the saine on line m x of Figs. 1 and 3. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line y y of Fig. 1, looking toward the front of the shoe. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the curved line z z of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a plan of the front portion of a shoe without the toe-piece.

A designates the body of a horseshoe7 provided with the recesses c c c, to receive the lugs on the toe-piece. B is the bed-plate of a separate toe-piece, provided with the lugs C C C, constructed to tit neatly in the recesses in the shoe. D is a call.; formed on and set back from the front of the bed-plate. The portions c a c in front and at the ends of the calk are provided with nail-holes b, in position, when the toe-piece is in place on the shoe, to be in range with the nail-holes b through the body of the shoe, so that the toe-piece may be fastened and held in place by the saine nails which fasten the front portion of the shoe to the horses foot.

Then the shoe with the toe-piece is fastened upon a horses foot, the lugs C C C', f1tting in the recesses in the shoe, aid in holding iirinly the toe-piece in place. By this construction and Inode of attachment I ani enabled to dispense with the devices ordinarily employed for attaching and holding toe-pieces to shoes, and I avoid the difficulties often eircountered in detaching the toe-pieces which have been fastened to the shoes by such devices.

I am aware that separate toe-pieces provided with calks and having lugs constructed to tit in recesses in the shoes are old.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure hy Letters Patent, isl

The combination,with a horseshoe, A, having the recesses c, of the separate toe-plate B, provided with the lugs C C C', and the call; D, and having the nail-holes b located in the plate in position to be in range with the holes b' in the body of the shoe, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Y RICHARD CORDON.

Witnesses:

W. F. HUnsoN, W. W. SANEORN. 

